COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Nurses are calling for state investigations into the leadership of two top Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center executives amid ongoing concerns about dangerous staffing shortages.
The Ohio Nurses Association announced it is preparing formal complaints to the State Medical Board of Ohio and the Ohio Board of Nursing concerning John J. Warner, MD, CEO of the medical center, and Corrin Steinhauer, DNP, RN, Chief Nursing Officer of The James Cancer Hospital.
The association said the complaints focus on “staffing deficiencies that have reportedly contributed to canceled open-heart surgeries, closed intensive care beds, limitations on patient admissions and transfers” and nursing assignments that are described as increasingly concerning…